Recent reviews by mat.duf

it has been 8 months since last update, many features still don't work, interface is still a mess.

I did not like it.

There are multiple problems. First, the jobs you get don't even bring enough money to cover for your expense. I really hate games where you have to get scammed to progress the story. It's always extremely obvious, and your characters never do anything about it, it's just poor writing. No wonder your dad left the town if every one of his clients was a scammer.

Second, the pop-up based interface is really awkward. You have to close each of them manually (ESC only pauses the game) and you have to constantly juggle between your notebook and the store. There could be a summary on the side of the screen of what you have to make for your current job, which would reduce the amount of back and forth.

Third, the time does not pause during textboxes and it goes fast. If you are a slow reader, you can easily spend several in-game hours in a conversation, which is problematic when the game is time-sensitive.

Finally, the game gives you tips on how to play, but one of them was wrong (it tells you a tiny silver ore instead of a small silver ore). This kinda sucks, especially when you can literally not fix your mistakes. There are also no indication of what the different sizes compare to each other or to the crucible. I guess the point is that you have to try things to get it, but this is not something I enjoy and when you can't even remove the mistakes you made, it starts to pile-up quick.

Like another reviewer said, in the current build you can't grab the 6th ledge in the game (the 5th one having a tiny window to grab, as well). Grabbing a ledge seems absolutely arbitrary as if it was manually set for each ledge because your character model can literally against a ledge and not grab it.

Many other problems too: it takes very long to start, very resources intensive even at lower settings, global illumination/shadow is very bugged, either really white in higher settings or really dark in lower settings with some textures not being lit up at all, and there is no proper clipping not to get you character stuck and sliding on some basic geometry

Finally, the sound ambiance appear to be some kind of white noise, just why?

I hope it is a rough early prototype that will improve but currently is is unplayable and really bad.

EDIT: I went back to an older version and the game plays much better, there was much fewer problems with grabbing the ledges, so there is definitely a problem with the last version.

The game was already not that great but ♥♥♥♥ this scam the dev is trying to pull.

Devs nerfed the game to the ground and QoL features are still basically absent in this rancid game.

Steam cloud does not work.

It's alright I guess.

Game uses by itself 2Gb of RAM when 1Gb is recommended. Also, multiplayer is down.

Devs released their game out of early access 3 years after the only early access update, not even considering problems reported in the forums. I am guessing they did not get enough sales to continue the development.

Honestly, so many problems. Automation is trash, community resorted to using scripts using RAM watch. Microtransactions are not rewarding and overpriced; devs except us to pay $50 for each of the now 100+ champions. Devs are only using toxic merchandising with constant FOMO, limited-offer, mechanics which start free and start being paid very quickly. They are also nerfing any avenue to improve without paying. Game design very unbalanced, some missions are overly simplistic while others are really annoying. Interface is really bad, QoL is basically non existant.

There a few good things, but not in the Idle part of the game which is just badly done.